This Week
Good food, good cause
The campus community is invited to an activities fair and fundraiser
for SFSU student organizations from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday
and Thursday on the Main Lawn. Student organizations will be selling
food and there will be music and dance performances.

All proceeds benefit the student organizations and will help support
their missions on campus.

For details, contact Alberto Olivares at ext. 8-3887.

Tuesday
The future of Europe
and the U.S.
Hans Arnold, former head of the German Foreign Office and ambassador
to the United Nations, will speak on "Europe and the U.S.:
Where Do We Go from Here?" at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in room 133
of the Humanities building.

The event is sponsored by the Foreign Languages and Literatures
Department.

Physiological psychology discontinuance
The Education Policies Council will meet at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in
room 460 of the Administration building to discuss the discontinuance
of the master of arts in physiological psychology.

The campus community is welcome.

Thomas King and SF lit
Glenna Matthews will present "Thomas Starr King and Literary
San Francisco" at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday in room 587 of the Humanities
building.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the J. Paul Leonard Library
and the History and English departments.

Wednesday
Introducing CalPERS
Paul Alires, senior benefits analyst, will present an introduction
to the CalPERS program from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in room 434
of the Library.

Social justice
and urban life
The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences' lecture series on
social justice and equity continues this week with a discussion
on "Social Justice and the Urban Experience" from 7:15
to 8:55 p.m. Wednesday in the Humanities Auditorium, room 133
in the Humanities building.

A geography of peace
Jeff Albert, a hydrologist and former analyst for the Israel Water
Commission, will speak on "The Geography of Israeli-Palestinian
Peace" at 7 p.m. Thursday in room 153 of the Humanities
building.

The event is part of the Jewish Studies Program's Academica Judaica
series. Cosponsors include the World Affairs Council, Jewish Alliance
for Justice and Peace, and Workmen's Circle of Northern California.

Saturday
Costume sale
The SFSU Costumer's Forum invites the campus community to a costume
sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Theatre Arts' costume shop, room
120E of the Creative Arts building.

Coming Up
Nonviolent resistance
in Palestine
Ayed Morrar and Jonathan Pollack, members of the nonviolent resistance
movement in Palestine, will speak at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, in
room 587 of the Humanities building.

The event is sponsored by Faculty for Palestinian/Israeli Peace.

Founding governments
Gail Presbey, professor of philosophy at University of Detroit,
Mercy, will speak on "Questions Concerning the Founding
of New Government in Iraq: Reflections on Arendt's Insights" at
3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, in room 391 of the Humanities building.

The event is sponsored by the Critical Social Thought Program;
the Philosophy, Humanities and Political Science departments; and
the Global Peace Studies Program.

San Francisco mayor to make history at SFSU
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will deliver his State of the City address
from McKenna Theatre at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 26. Hundreds of civic and
community leaders are expected to attend.

"This is the first time in history that a San Francisco mayor has
chosen a location outside of a municipal building for a State of the
City address," said President Robert A. Corrigan. "Mayor Newsom's
choice of San Francisco State is a great honor, and a reflection of his
strong commitment to partnering with our University to improve the quality
of life and economic vitality of the city."

The event in McKenna Theatre is by invitation only, but arrangements
have been made for members of the campus community who wish to view the
speech. Broadcasts will be made on closed circuit television in the Little
Theatre of the Creative Arts building and at Seven Hills Conference Center.
The broadcast can also be viewed on all campus televisions linked to
cable channel 53.

The San Francisco Police Department will restrict parking on Tapia Drive
and portions of Holloway Avenue prior to and during the event, and the
campus neighborhood may experience traffic congestion that afternoon.

Alum
donates $300,000 to Anthropology Department
Alumnus Jay P. Young has pledged gifts totaling $300,000 to the University's
Anthropology Department, the largest individual donation ever to the
department.

Young has provided $250,000 in his living trust to create an SFSU endowment
fund to benefit the Anthropology Department, and pledged an additional
$50,000 to be donated in the next five years.

Young, chief financial officer for the San Francisco Design Center,
earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from SFSU in 1981. He joined
the center in 1983 as assistant controller and was promoted over the
years. In 1995 he earned a master of business administration from the
University.

Candidates for Health Equity Initiative director
Three finalists have been selected for the Health Equity Initiative
director position and will make on-campus visits. All members of the
campus community are invited to attend. Each candidate will present
their vision for the Health Equity Initiative, a program coordinated
by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to enhance SFSU's
capacity to obtain extramural funds to address existing health disparities
through research, community intervention, curricular offerings and
training programs.

Thursday, Nov. 10: Gopal Singh, senior epidemiologist/health care administrator
at the Health Resources and Services Administration and Maternal and
Child Health Bureau at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Singh's presentation will be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in room 116 of
the Ethnic Studies and Psychology building.

Thursday, Nov. 17: Cynthia Gomez, associate professor in the Department
of Medicine and co-director of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
at University of California, San Francisco. Gomez's presentation will
be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in room 560 of the Administration building.

Thursday, Dec. 1: George Ayala, director of the Institute for Gay Men's
Health. Ayala's presentation will be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in room
560 of the Administration building.

Internal Audit move
Effective Friday, Oct. 28, the Internal Audit Office will be located
in room 406 of the Ethnic Studies and Psychology building (ES&P).

Internal Audit will remain in this new location through the spring semester
and then return to a newly remodeled area in the Administration building.
Internal Audit provides audit, tax, and advisory services to University
departments and auxiliary organizations.

A reminder: one function
of Internal Audit that will be affected by the move is the need of
newly hired non-resident aliens to meet with
tax specialist Young Kim. Departments hiring non-resident aliens should
direct them to ES&P 406.

Halloween blood drive
The campus community is invited to participate in the Schools of Nursing's
third annual Halloween blood drive from noon to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct.
31, in room 343 of Burk Hall.

Donations
will be handled by the Blood Centers of the Pacific. Halloween candy
(and other snacks) will be
available to donors.

Graduate program review
The next step in considering the final report of the Task Force on
the Sixth Cycle of Program Review is the review of the "Indicators
and Criteria of Graduate Program Viability and Quality." The
campus community is encouraged to carefully read this document and
provide
feedback online.

Denise Miyajima: No place like home Undergraduate
Admissions Assistant Denise Miyajima never thought she'd learn to build
a fence, mix concrete and tie rebar -- or that her coworkers
would want to learn, too. It's kept her busy the past year, however,
after being selected by Habitat for Humanity to own a home in San Francisco.

Miyajima's
current two-room, in-law apartment is small enough that there are no
secrets between her and her two children. The family has survived the
challenges of living in tight quarters -- cooking with little counter
space, seeking a quiet spot for the children to do homework, and most
of all, living in places that don't feel like "home."

So last
fall the excitement had to be contained when a Habitat for Humanity
volunteer called and said her family was selected as a "partner" in
the De Long Terrace Homes project. ...

FERP's future
Paul Alires, senior benefits analyst, will speak on "The Future
of the Faculty Early Retirement Program: Will It Still Be Available?" from
noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in room 202 of the Business building.

Textbook return
The Bookstore is beginning to return textbooks ordered for the fall
semester to publishers. Faculty using books later in the term should
contact the Bookstore at textbook@sfsu.edu or ext. 8-7377 so textbook
staff can hold those books for later purchase.

Faculty who know of books that will be used again in the winter or
spring terms should submit an order so that those books will be retained.

Faculty service learning grants
The Office of Community Service Learning (OCSL) invites full- and part-time
faculty to apply for the OCSL Community Scholarship Faculty Grant
Program. The program supports faculty community scholarship and the
development of community service learning courses.

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